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Dry stone,
sometimes called drystack or, in Scotland, drystane, is a
building method by
which structures are
constructed from
stones without any mortar...
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Types of
dry stone hut include: Clochán, ****ociated with the south-western
Irish seaboard Mitato,
found in Greece,
especially on the
mountains of Crete...
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significance to its
larger neighbour,
Wolfe Island. The
Dry Stone Walling ****ociation of
Canada (aka
Dry Stone Canada)
believes that
Amherst Island contains the...
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trullo (plural, trulli) is a
traditional Apulian dry stone hut with a
conical roof.
Their style of
construction is
specific to the
Itria Valley, in...
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dry stone masonry once they
reached an
altitude where the sea
waves would no
longer weather them.
Later the base
steps were
replaced with
dry-
stone paths...
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particularly under Sapa Inca
Pachacuti and his successors.
Dry stone walls constructed of huge
stones were
built on the site, with the
workers carefully cutting...
- site.
Machu Picchu was
built in the
classical Inca style, with
polished dry-
stone walls. Its
three primary structures are the
Temple of the Sun, the Temple...
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dry-
stone construction proved to be more earthquake-resistant than
using mortar.
People of Inca
civilization were
masters of the
polished '
dry-
stone walls'...
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flora and
fauna including birds,
butterflies and
small mammals. The
dry stone walls that
divide the
pasture into
fields are of
botanical importance...
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Cabana – an open
shelter Chozo –
Spanish for hut Clochán –
Irish dry stone hut
Dry stone hut
Earth lodge –
Native American dwelling Heartebeest Hut – hut...
